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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1969
Page
2
Six hundred dollars in cash prizes will be given to float entries in the 17th Annual Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade on June 28. Nearly one thousand dollars in trophies will also be awarded. Information booklets and entry blanks for the 1969 parade are available.
The American G I Forum Veterans of World War I Bar racks, Ladies Auxiliary WW I Veterans, American Legion Lompoc Post 211 and the Lompoc City Employees Association unanimously backed establishing a national cemetery at Vandenberg Air Force Base. No new national cemeteries are planned currently. California sites are at capacity.
Karp of Skokie Ill underwent a three hour operation in Houston to receive a plastic and dacron artificial heart, followed by a human heart from Barbara Ewan of Lawrence Mass. Doctors, led by Dr. Denton Cooley, reported hopeful signs despite a pneumonia diagnosis and declining kidney function.
YMCA invites last year’s campers parents and friends to a get acquainted rally Friday April 11 at 7 p.m. Director Gene Doud says the event offers song fellowship and registration for two Lake Sequoia sessions August 2-9 and August 9-16. Peanuts sales support camper funding with over 100 participants raising more than 6000 last year.
A pancake breakfast to raise funds for YMCA youth programs will be held Saturday April 12 from 7 to 11 am at Williams Brothers Market 316E Ocean. Lompochs Men’s Club sponsors with Y Indian Guides and Y’s Men handling tickets, coordinator Clarence Willis.
At Fort Ord California the court martial of 14 soldiers charged with mutiny opened with armed guards road blocks and helicopter overhead. Defence counsel called security stricter than in Vietnam as 27 defendants faced charges from a sit-in at the Presidio stockade.
The Hanoi News Agency reported John F. Lowney a 19 year old private first class of the 3rd Battalion 9th Regiment of the U S 3rd Marine Division defected to the Communist side in South Vietnam on February 22. He said he opposed the Vietnam War calling it the dirtiest in U S history and criticized Washington leaders for sending many American troops into combat. The broadcast gave no location of his current whereabouts.
U S Marines from Operation Oklahoma Hills overran a Communist base camp near Da Nang, killing 35 defenders and capturing the site with no Marine casualties. The broader drive aims to block infiltration from Laos with over 10 000 Marines involved.
State Controller Houston S. Flournoy announced the March apportionment of cigarette tax totaling 7,483,113 to counties and cities. Santa Barbara County received 17,863.60 and Lompoc 9,136.54, representing 30 percent of February 1969 Cigarette Tax Fund receipts.
San Francisco officer Frank Kerlin a decorated veteran disarmed a robbery suspect after gunfire shattered his motorcycle windshield and jacket. He cornered one suspect in Golden Gate Park after a chase through Haight Ashbury and Head Start, seizing a .38 revolver and the paper bag with $87. The second suspect escaped as Crilly, 24, of Brookfield Wis., was arrested on armed robbery and assault charges.
The Lompoc Record is a daily publication issued by Lompoc Record Publications, listed as a California corporation. The notice names key staff including President Mrs. Kenneth L. Adam, Publisher J. Donald Adam, Editor Harry J. Crompe, and others, and notes circulation rate of $2.00 per month for home delivery or mail with publication daily except Sundays and Christmas Day.
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